The Brooklyn Rail

Sa'dia Rehman is an artist who explores how contemporary and historical images communicate, consolidate and contest ideas about race, empire and labor. Through techniques such as wall drawing, cut outs and assemblage, Rehman pulls apart and puts together images from family photographs, historical records, and mass media to interrogate their resonances. 

Bakirathi Mani is the author of Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America (Stanford University Press, 2012).

Swati Rana is a poet, professor at UC Santa Barbara, and author of Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream.